Walk-off homer run sends Belhaven softball to College World Series for first time in program history

MOUNT BERRY, Ga. (WLBT) – Belhaven softball entered Friday with a chance to make school history, one win away from the team’s first College World Series appearance after beating Berry College in game one of the NCAA Division-III Super Regional.

They did that, and in thrilling fashion in extra innings.

The Blazers were the home team in game two, with Kennedy Carruth taking the mound after pitching six innings and allowing just one run in game one. In the first inning, the Vikings scored the first run of the game when Anna Jackson drove in a run with a bases-loaded ground out.

Allie Gordon tied the game in the bottom of the frame, driving in Madi Miller after a lead-off triple.

The Vikings plated two more runs in the fourth inning, before a nearly two-hour weather delay delayed the finish of the game. After play resumed, neither team pushed another run across, and the Vikings forced a game three with a 3-1 win.

In game three, the Vikings once again batted first and once again opened the scoring in the first frame. Shelby Daniel drove in a run with a single in the first, but the Blazers answered thanks to a sacrifice fly from Ellie Jones in the bottom of the frame. In the second, it was the same story as the first: the Vikings scored off an RBI triple from Sydney Moroney, and the Blazers answered with a fielder’s choice from Mary Moore Widemire.

In the bottom of the ninth inning on Friday, after Carruth put up a scoreless two innings from the circle, Anna Caime slapped a walk-off home run to send the Blazers to the NCAA Division III College World Series with a 4-3 win.

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